DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z June 11, 2015
Northwest and Central Canada/North Central US: Several areas of mostly thin to moderate density smoke is visible across portions of Canada including the Northwest Territories, Alberta,Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and western Ontario moving south/southeast into the north central US states of Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota. The most dense areas of smoke were seen over eastern North Dakota, northwest Minnesota, southern Manitoba, west Ontario, and east central Alberta. This smoke has originated from wildfires primarily in northwest Canada and other fires over portions of Alberta/Saskatchewan. Hudson Bay: One area of thin remnant smoke was seen moving northward across far northern parts of Hudson Bay while another area of thin to moderately dense smoke was present over James Bay and portions of the Quebec/Ontario shorelines. This remnant smoke is believed to have come from fires in northwest Canada. Ohio Valley/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Canadian Maritimes: An area of moderately dense to dense remnant smoke continues to be seen this morning over parts of the Mid-Atlantic stretching east and northeast across the north Atlantic. Thin smoke is detected from Ohio eastward into Pennsylvania and then separately due to cloud cover from northeast Kentucky/West Virginia east and northeast covering large parts of Virginia, Maryland, DC, Delaware, New Jersey, south and east Pennsylvania, southeast New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia as well as stretching across the northwestern Atlantic. The majority of this smoke, and certainly all of the moderately dense to dense smoke, has traveled over 3500 miles from wildfires burning in various parts of Northwest Canada to reach the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern US. Texas/Oklahoma/Arkansas/Kansas/Missouri: Thin remnant smoke is seen over northeast Texas, east Oklahoma, west and north central Arkansas, southwest Missouri, and southeast Kansas. Numerous agricultural burns yesterday both in these areas and along the southern parts of the Mississippi River are the likely cause of this smoke. Gulf of Alaska: A small area of aerosol thought to be thin remnant smoke is seen progressing east-southeastward along the Alaska coastline behind a low pressure system. This smoke may have come from an Asian source or it may be smoke that was pulled southwest by the low from the northwest Canada fires. Sheffler THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov